» The surest sign of age is loneliness.
» While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
» Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
» That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
» To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
» Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
» Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
» Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
» Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
» A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.